[PING] Re: [PATCH v2] Define an error function in the PPC simulator library.

[Sebastian Huber]

On 06/06/17 19:48, John Baldwin wrote:

> On Friday, May 19, 2017 09:27:01 AM John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Friday, May 05, 2017 12:22:43 PM John Baldwin wrote:
>>> On Thursday, April 13, 2017 10:18:14 AM John Baldwin wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, April 13, 2017 08:25:27 AM Luis Machado wrote:
>>>>> On 04/05/2017 11:33 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>>>> Previously this used the error function from GDB directly when linked
>>>>>> against GDB instead of the error method in the host callbacks
>>>>>> structure.  This was exposed via a link error when GDB was converted
>>>>>> to C++.  The error function invokes the error callback similar to
>>>>>> sim_io_error.
>>>>>>
>>>>> There is another implementation of error (...) in sim/ppc/main.c and
>>>>> sim/ppc/misc.c. Should those be kept as is or should we only use the new
>>>>> function you're providing?
>>>> My understanding is that they should be kept as-is.  This file is only used
>>>> when linking the library against GDB (and actually, rereading the log message,
>>>> I should reword the opening sentence to make this clearer).  sim-calls.o isn't
>>>> included in the actual library.  Each consumer of the library is required
>>>> to export a couple of symbols that libsim.a uses including "error".  The dgen,
>>>> igen, tmp-filter, tmp-ld-decode, tmp-ld-cache, and tmp-ld-insn programs use
>>>> the functions from misc.c.  psim uses the functions from main.c, and
>>>> GDB uses the functions from sim-calls.o.  glibc includes a global function
>>>> called 'error' that libsim.a is linking against when linked into GDB on
>>>> Linux which is why it doesn't fail to link on Linux (but if it ever needs
>>>> to raise an error it probably blows up as error(3) doesn't have the same
>>>> calling convention).
>>>>
>>>>> Also, i don't see error being implemented in the other sim backends. I
>>>>> wonder if we should just use whatever is available (sim_io_error?)
>>>>> instead of supplying our own ppc-specific version?
>>>> Other sims don't use an "error" function (ppc seems to be special in this
>>>> case).  I think Pedro took a stab at replacing "error" (there's a thread
>>>> with the subject "gdb-7.12-powerpc-rtems4.12-gdb does not build on FreeBSD"
>>>> on gdb@) but thought this approach was simpler (and could also be merged
>>>> to 7.12 though that may be OBE by now).
>>> Ping?
>> Ping++
>>
>> This does fix a PR, is a regression in 7.12, and is relatively small, so I
>> think it's a candidate for 8.0 if accepted.
> Ping?
>

This issue breaks also at least the PowerPC GDB 7.12 and 8.0 support on 
MacOS X. Its not only related to FreeBSD.

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